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Limetree Festival by Rachel McGahey

A reduced Our Sansar team travelled all the way up to the wilds of North Yorkshire last weekend to take part in the Lime Tree music festival. After a very, very long drive up from Brighton we, once again, found ourselves setting up camp in the middle of the night – we are getting rather good at this!

On Saturday we awoke to a rather wet and cold day however we didn’t let this dampen our spirits. We set about installing the Our Sansar stand complete with sign board, donation buckets and information leaflets. The wonderfully talented blues musician Marcus Bonfanti (check him out at www.marcusbonfanti.com) arrived to represent Our Sansar on the James Rae stage at 2pm.
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Glamping in the Peaks by Rikki Sullivan

Team Our Sansar set off in force this weekend to run and walk our socks off to raise funds for the launch of our home for street children in August. Friday evening saw half the team beginning the road trip up to Thornbridge Hall for a night of pre-challenge camping…. Finally arriving on site with hungry bellies and sleepy heads we were greeted with a bonus challenge… erecting our tents in the dark! Some of us faired better than others in this department but either way camp Our Sansar 2011 was born!

We were all very happy (and surprised) to find that the FSI were not expecting us small charities to suffer for our causes, we were welcomed with toilets better than those found in many bars, equipped with Molton Brown hand-wash and cream and loo roll aplenty! It didn’t stop there, hot showers and electric BBQ’s meant we were definitely glamping! And yes, we loved it!
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News from Chitwan by David Britten

David and Jackie arrived in Nepal beginning of May. They will spend 1 year in Chitwan. Jackie is teaching at a local school and David is assisting with the children's home project for street children. Here's David's first story from Nepal.

Flights were uneventful, which is good. The 6 hour wait at Abu Dhabi was difficult as they chose this week to do some restructuring work to the terminal building. Trying to grab some sleep with jackhammers going was not easy.

We were in Kathmandu for a week before heading off to Chitwan for induction. Nepali language classes have started and are a struggle, there does not appear to be any concept of teaching Nepali as a foreign language.  Happy that we are in Chitwan, other volunteers have learned Nepali and then gone off to remote areas to discover that the locals do not speak Nepali.

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